On 9/26/05, Normand Mongeau <nmongeau@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > this is my first posting here, so please bear with me if I'm at the wrong > place. > > I'm looking at Apache to be used as an HTTP server, to access a GemStone > database at the back end. In my scenario all pages will be active. Ideally > I'd like Apache to convert HTTP requests to XML (presumably with XSLT) > before feeding them to my database, which would then return the resulting > data also in XML, for Apache to then convert that XML to HTML with XSLT, > thus returning HTML to the client. > > I looked at different Apache modules but nothing seems to fit my scenario. > For instance, the Xalan C++ sample named ApacheModuleXSLT is completely > file-based, which is definitely not my case. > > Is there a way to do the above scenario? There are various options. mod_transform is one and there are several others listed on http://modules.apache.org/ But to be frank, unless your needs for performance are very high, most people would not consider doing this in a C module. They would use a higher level system like mod_perl/tomcat or a CGI/fastCGI-based system in your favorite language. Not that it can't be done in a pure apache module written in C. It is just that higher level languages will often be much easier to deal with. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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